Chick vs Chink - What's the difference?
chick | chink |
A young bird.
A young chicken.
(slang) (rft-sense) A woman (especially one who is young and/or attractive).
* {{quote-book, year=1927, title=Elmer Gantry, author=Sinclair Lewis
, passage=He had determined that marriage now would cramp his advancement in the church and that, anyway, he didn't want to marry this brainless little fluffy chick , who would be of no help in impressing rich parishioners.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Bad moon rising?, author=Tess Pendergrass
, passage=I can't believe you've got a hot chick in that ratty apartment with you.}}
A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
*:Yet I did not give way, but settled to wait for the dawn, which must, I knew, be now at hand; for then I thought enough light would come through the chinks of the tomb above to show me how to set to work.
* Macaulay
A chip or dent (in something metallic).
A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system, idiomatically derived from the phrase "chink in armor".
* The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.
* The chink in the theory is that the invaders have superior muskets.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 30
, author=Kevin Darlng
, title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield
, work=BBC
To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
To crack; to open.
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other.
Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
*1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, pp. 47-8:
*:I thought that if all the hills about there were pure chink , and all belonged to me, I would give them if I could just talk to her when I wanted to
* Somerville
To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
As nouns the difference between chick and chink
is that chick is a young bird while chink is (slang|offensive|ethnic slur) refers to a chinese or a person of chinese ethnicity.As a verb chick
is (obsolete) to sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.chick
English
Noun
(en noun)- Three cool chicks / Are walking down the street / Swinging their hips — song "Three Cool Cats" by
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* chick flick * chickfriend * chick litReferences
chink
English
Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin; but apparently an extension (with formative (m)) of (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Through one cloudless chink , in a black, stormy sky, / Shines out the dewy morning star.
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Verb
(en verb)- to chink a wall
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.Noun
(en noun)- to leave his chink to better hands
Verb
(en verb)- The coins were chinking in his pocket.
- (Alexander Pope)